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    E.M. Forster
    “We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.”
    ― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
    tags: darkness, life, light
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    John Ruskin
    “Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ”
    ― John Ruskin
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    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: enemies, mistakes, strategy
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    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “I have drunken deep of joy,
    And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley
    tags: inspirational-attitude, joy, poetry
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    John Dos Passos
    “If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies.”
    ― John Dos Passos
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    Khushwant Singh
    “When a man's instincts are evil, repentance has a short lease and brief is his gratitude towards those who have done him good.”
    ― Khuswant Singh
    tags: delhi, history-of-mankind
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    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
    ― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
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    John C. Maxwell
    “Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”
    ― John Maxwell
    tags: leadership
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    John C. Maxwell
    “Seven Steps to Success
    1) Make a commitment to grow daily.
    2) Value the process more than events.
    3) Don't wait for inspiration.
    4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity.
    5) Dream big.
    6) Plan your priorities.
    7) Give up to go up.”
    ― John C Maxwell
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    Zig Ziglar
    “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
    ― Zig Ziglar
    tags: attention, direction, focus, inspirational, motivational
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
    tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Tom Wolfe
    “A cult is a religion with no political power.”
    ― Tom Wolfe
    tags: atheism, philosophy
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    M.G. Vassanji
    “No amount of photography could replace the memories of a life lived, of lives observed and known, of lives elaborated in the mind and on the page.”
    ― M.G. Vassanji
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: good, writing
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    Siddhartha Mukherjee
    “History repeats, but science reverberates.”
    ― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
    tags: science
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    Jeffrey D. Sachs
    “History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.”
    ― Jeffrey Sachs
    tags: class, condition, human, maldistribution, poor, poverty, rich, wealth
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
    tags: love, philosophy, physics, priorities
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    Michael Palmer
    “Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside.
    -Gabe Singleton remembering his counselor's first advice-”
    ― Michael Palmer
    tags: comparing, self-value
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    “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
    ― John A. Shedd
    tags: courage, inspirational, misattributed-grace-hopper, misattributed-william-g-t-shedd, risk
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle
    tags: books, humor
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    Angie-Marie Delsante
    “Without writers, stories would not be written,
    Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.”
    ― Angie-Marie Delsante
    tags: acting, actors, authors, creativity, filmmaking, films, imagination, inspirational, scriptwriters, theatre, writers, writing
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    “The only thing that consoles me is to be surrounded by people as depressed as I am. The readers down here, they're seriously depressed and that cheers me up. You yourself for instance, if I can put this politely, you don't exactly look like a bundle of laughs. No, don't pretend, I can see right through you.”
    ― Sophie Divry, The Library of Unrequited Love
    tags: humor
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    Arthur Hailey
    “...a private hell was something you lived with alone, even when someone else's casual questions nudged old, raw wounds within yourself.”
    ― Arthur Hailey, Hotel
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